The Screens

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His subsequent plays,
Le Balcon (1956;
The Balcony),
Les Nègres (1958;
The Blacks), and
Les Paravents (1961;
The Screens), are large-scale, stylized dramas in the Expressionist manner, designed to shock and implicate an audience by revealing its hypocrisy and complicity. This “Theatre of Hatred” attempts to wrest the maximum dramatic...

French literature

...Europe’s destructive treatment of the Third World. Because of its focus on French policy in Algeria, Genet’s corrosively satiric drama
Les Paravents (1961;
The Screens) premiered in Berlin and was not performed on the French stage until 1966, four years after the war in Algeria ended. Despite
le fast-food,...

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